Election Commission
Biennial Election to the Karnataka Legislative Council from 20 Local Authorities’ Constituencies for 25 seats due to retirement of sitting members on 05.01.2022–reg.
The term of office of the 25 sitting members of Karnataka Legislative Council from 20 Local Authorities’ Constituencies is going to expire on 05.01.2022 as per details given below:
KARNATAKA
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S. No.
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Name of Local Authorities Constituencies
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No. of seat
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Name of member
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Date of Retirement
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-
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Bidar
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01
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Vijay Singh
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05.01.2022
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-
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Gulbarga
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01
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B. G. Patil
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-
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Bijapur
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02
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S.R. Patil
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Sunilgouda Patil
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-
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Belgaum
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02
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Kavatagimath Mahantesh Mallikarjun
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Vivekrao Vasantrao Patil
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-
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Uttara Kannada
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01
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Ghotnekar Shrikant Laxman
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-
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Dharwad
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02
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Pradeep Shettar
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Mane Shrinivas
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-
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Raichur
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01
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Basavaraj Patil Itagi
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-
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Bellary
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01
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K. C. Kondaiah
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-
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Chitradurga
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01
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G. Raghuachar
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-
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Shimoga
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01
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R. Prasanna Kumar
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-
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Dakshina Kannada
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02
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K. Prathapchandra Shetty
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Kota Srinivasa Poojary
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-
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Chikmagalur
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01
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Pranesh M.K.
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-
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Hassan
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01
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M.A. Gopalaswamy
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-
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Tumkur
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01
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Kanthraj 
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-
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Mandya
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01
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N. Appajigowda
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-
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Bangalore
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01
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M. Narayanaswamy
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-
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Bangalore Rural
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01
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S. Ravi
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-
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Kolar
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01
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C.R. Manohar
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-
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Kodagu
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01
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Sunil Subramani M.P.
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-
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Mysore
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02
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R. Dharmasena
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S. Nagaraju 
2. Now, the Commission has decided to hold biennial election to Karnataka Legislative Council from above mentioned 20 Local Authorities’ Constituencies in accordance with the following programme:-
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S. No
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Events
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Dates
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Issue of Notifications
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16th November, 2021 
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Last date of making nominations
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23rd November, 2021 
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Scrutiny of nominations
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24th November, 2021 
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Last date for withdrawal of candidatures
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26th November, 2021 
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Date of Poll
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10th December, 2021 
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Hours of Poll
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08:00 am to 04:00 pm
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Counting of Votes
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14th December, 2021 
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Date before which election shall be completed
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16th December, 2021 
- Broad Guidelines of Covid-19 as already issued by ECI as well as the recent guidelines issued by ECI as contained in para 06 of Press Note dated 28.09.2021 available at link https://eci.gov.in/candidate-political-parties/instructions-on-covid-19/ to be followed, wherever applicable, during entire election process for all persons.
- The Model Code of Conduct concerning the said election will come into force with immediate effect in the concerned Constituency. Please see the details in Commission’s website under https://eci.gov.in/files/file/4070-biennial-bye-elections-to-the-legislative-councils-from-council-constituencies-by-graduates%E2%80%99-and teachers%E2%80%99-and-local-authorities%E2%80%99-constituencies-%E2%80%93-mcc-instructions-%E2%80%93-regarding/
5. The Chief Secretary, Karnataka is being directed to depute a senior officer from the State to ensure that the extant instructions regarding COVID-19 containment measures are complied with while making arrangements for conducting the election.